Organiclea is a social project - it brings local people together to grow food. The site is an open space with many opportunities to sit and enjoy the wildlife and activity of food growing. The majority of work on site is done by volunteers and we are a local registered voluntary organisation. We grow a range of organic vegetables - seasonally produced throughout the year.



We are a not for profit body and registered in 2004 as an officially constituted workers cooperative. Currently, a few of the cooperative members earn a modest income from a days work. These workers are also committed volunteers and agree to certain obligations as paid workers of the coop. There is a procedure of application for volunteers wishing to become a member of the coop.



At Organiclea, as well as considering permaculture on the growing site, we aim to apply the idea of permaculture and interconnecting elements to our work away from the site. This includes a community composting scheme that helps us generate compost for our growing, encouraging others to get involved in the food growing - with open days and the offer of training, working with a local community herbalist, who uses our crops and runs workshops about preventative health, pedaling our fresh produce to selling points by bicycle and working with community organisations to promote our produce to local families.



The Forest Garden

In the forest garden, we have a range of fruit trees and bushes, with plants that are edible, or are otherwise useful - and are perennial [grow anew each year], or are readily self-seeding.